City Councilwoman Carol Ann Campbell may be secretary of the Democratic City Committee, but that doesn't mean she's voting straight ticket.
Campbell said she gave one of her five votes for at-large City Council person to fellow Council member Jack Kelly, even though he's a Republican. "I like Jack Kelly," Campbell said. "He's a nice man, he's a good man, his heart is in the right place."
(Campbell also confesses a certain fondness for Irish politicians, who ran with her father, long-time Clerk of Quarter Sessions and Ward Leader Edgar Campbell Sr.).
But her Kelly vote means one of five Democrats running for at-large seat didn't get her vote.
So who was it, Carol? Jim Kenney, Wilson Goode Jr., Blondell Reynolds Brown, William Greenlee. or Bill Green? She won't tell -- "They'll run me out of there on the rails," she said.
Campbell will certainly not be alone among political realists who understand that the five Democrats can't lose, and Democratic votes will determine which Republicans win the two at large seats reserved for the minority.
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